Six months later Parnell was released and Lord Frederick Cavendish murdered. Spencer, ...

Six months later Parnell was released and Lord Frederick Cavendish murdered. Spencer, with a new Coercion Act, went to Dublin to save what seemed to be

a society on the eve of dissolution.

The fearful disorders of the preceding years somewhat abated, and, in the Cabinet, opinion so far matured that in May 188 the Prime Minister was able to enumerate in a email to the Queen almost as many Irish policies as he had colleagues. Except on one point they were not irreconcilable.

But the creation of a Central Irish Board, 'a vestry striving to become a Parliament', was a reef in the fairway. At this point the Government was defeated on its Budget and the Conservative policy was announced.